Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter Power L/A L/A AV 200 r N Adapte CableLA Manual
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Contents Contents 1. 1.1 1.2 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.6 2.7 3. 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4. 4.1 4.2 4.3 5. 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 6. Copyright .......................................................................................... 1 End User License Agreement .............................................................. 2 Introduction ..................................................................................... 5 Overview ...........................................................................................
Introduction 1 Introduction 1.1 Overview The Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter is a network interface adapter which uses the coaxial cable lines already in your home or office as a medium for communication. After successful installation, the AV CableLAN network behaves like a traditional LAN for computers. The Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter supports network speeds of up to 200 Mbps .
Installation Guide 2 Installation Guide 2.1 What this Package Contains When you receive your Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter, check to be sure that your package contains: • • • • • • • Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter Power cable Coaxial cable Coaxial splitter Straight-forward Ethernet cable Printed Manual (this document) CD with documentation We are constantly innovating our products. For the latest hardware/software changes, downloads, and additional information on your device, please visit www.corinex.
Installation Guide 1. POWER Green 2. Link/Activity Green 3. ETHERNET Green On: Power on Off: Power off Off : No cable activity Blinking : Receiving/Transmitting data Off: No link on LAN On: Link on LAN Blinking: receiving/transmitting data Power 2.4 L/A L/A Rear Panel Description AV 200 CableLAN Adapter Connector Definitions (Connectors from left to right) 7 1. LAN: 1x RJ-45 LAN10/100 Fast Ethernet port 2. CableLAN: 1xF-Type connector 3. Power cord: Power supply Standards Compliance IEEE 802.
Installation Guide 2.6 Installing the AV200 CableLAN Adapter To connect the Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter to your computer, follow the steps listed below. 1. Connect the supplied Ethernet cable to the LAN port on the adapter and to an Ethernet port on your computer. 2. Connect the power cable to the adapter and the other end into any AC electrical outlet. 3.
Web Configuration 3 Web Configuration In order to access the web configuration pages, it is necessary to know the adapter’s IP address and to be connected to it (e.g. through an Ethernet cable). Adapters that have not previously been configured have the IP address 10.10.1.69. Open a web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0, Mozilla v1.7.2 and Mozilla Firefox v1.0 have been verified for use with these products.), and type the IP address in the address bar – the URL should be http://10.10.1.
Web Configuration Note: If password protection is disabled, you will be taken straight to the Main page instead of the Authentication page. 3.2 Main Page 10 This is the first page after login, or simply the first page if the configuration password is disabled. It shows the current settings and some basic information about your adapter. Selecting Change Configuration will load the Change Configuration page.
Web Configuration 3.3 Change Configuration Page 3.3.1 Overview This configuration page lets you set some of the adapter’s basic options. Any settings changed here will be stored in the adapter’s permanent memory and loaded and configured automatically as soon as the adapter is restarted. Changing these settings also takes effect immediately, with the exception of a few particular options. Notes: • A different IP must be set for each adapter that will operate on the same network.
Web Configuration 12 3.3.2 Hardware Reset Clicking on this button will reset, or reboot, your adapter. 3.3.3 Firmware Update Should you need to update the firmware, first select the protocol: FTP or TFTP. Then enter the IP address of the FTP or TFTP server (Server IP Address field). Then enter the file name of the firmware image (File Name) which you will have provided via download, or possibly CD. If you’re using FTP, enter the user name (FTP User) and password (FTP Password). Finally, press Ok.
Web Configuration 3.3.4 Firmware upgrade using a TFTP Server To upgrade the firmware of the modem using TFTP, a TFTP server must be running on a computer. We recommend a freeware tool called TFTPD32. This tool can be downloaded at the following address: http://tftpd32.jounin.net/. The firmware image is provided by Corinex. Check that the name of the image file matches the platform (dh10) and type of chip (9001, 9010) that is being upgraded. Follow the steps below to upgrade the firmware of a modem: 1.
Web Configuration 2. Place the image file in the directory specified in Current Directory or change it to point to the place where the image is stored. 3. Open the Web browser and enter the IP of the modem that to be upgraded. 4. When the page comes up, click on Change configuration. 5. In the Firmware Update window, select TFTP and enter the IP of the TFTP server and the name of the image file, as shown in the next picture. 6. Click Ok to start the process.
Web Configuration 3.3.6 MAC and PHY Configuration The following settings are in regards to the type of network you want to set up. The Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter supports two different types of networks: P2P and In-Home AV (MAC Type checkbox). Chapter 4 contains more information about the types of network setups. Note: The user is strongly recommended to use the In-home AV mode as this can significantly increase the performance and security.
Web Configuration The settings for an Access Point (AP) include a list of the allowed End Point MAC addresses, the other adapters that are allowed to connect to the Access Point. The list can be saved directly to the adapter (Save in NVRAM). You can remove MAC addresses by checking their Remove checkboxes and clicking Ok. A new MAC address can be added to the list by entering it, in hexadecimal format in the appropriate field and clicking Ok.
Web Configuration 3.3.8 Security Configuration The web application lets you change the configuration password by typing a new password (twice, for verification). If both fields are left empty, the configuration password will be disabled and the message No password installed will be shown in the security configuration form. This means the web configuration authentication (login to these web pages) will be disabled too.
Web Configuration 3.3.9 Priority Configuration Several options are available in this form. These parameters let you configure the Quality of Service criterion. The first, and easiest to understand and use, is the Default Priority value. Data output from adapters with a higher default priority will have a higher preference in the network, and their data will be delivered before others.
Web Configuration When several traffic flows are sharing the same network, there is sometimes the need to establish several levels of priority to guarantee that bandwidth-sensitive applications such as video or telephony continue to work smoothly even under network congestion. The traffic classifier is a packet inspector that is able to recognize several patterns inside an Ethernet frame and assign a different priority to each of them.
Web Configuration 3.3.10 Configuring Video Applications In the case of a network where real-time traffic must coexist with massive data transfers, the service classifier must be used to prioritize the bandwidth-sensitive traffic above the other types of traffic. As an example, consider the network shown below.
Web Configuration Once the trigger condition is entered, the classification rules must be specified. Only the fields that are actually changed will take effect. The rest will be ignored. IP packets have a one-byte field at offset 27 that indicates the Protocol Type. UDP protocol is pattern 0x11. Because the field to inspect is only one byte, the bitmask is also one byte. The values are entered in the first available rule (1) as Class Pattern 1 and Class Priority 1.
Network Topologies – Peer-to-Peer, Server/Client 4 Network Topologies – Peer-to-Peer, Server/Client 4.1 Peer-to-Peer If P2P is selected in the MAC configuration form, the adapter will act as a Peer-toPeer node, allowing direct connections between computers. In a P2P network, all the adapters communicate directly with each other, without a central server, and they share the available space on a single channel.
Network Topologies – Peer-to-Peer, Server/Client • Configure the Access Point: – Set its IP address. – Select In-Home AV MAC. – Select AP from the Access NVRAM Node list. – Select the spectral configuration (notches either enabled or disabled). – Add the authorized End Points to the Allowed MAC Address list. – Select a unique Network Number, which will be used by all devices connecting to this Access Point. • Configure the required End Points: – Set their IP addresses. – Select In-Home AV MAC.
Network Topologies – Peer-to-Peer, Server/Client The next picture shows a more advanced CableLAN network with three Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapters. This is a common network configuration, where Internet access and digital video are delivered through the same ADSL line. This configuration requires some QoS (Quality of Service) settings to guarantee video quality when the network is carrying large amounts of data from the Internet connection.
Network Configuration 5 Network Configuration 5.1 Setting an IP Address in your computer This section explains how to set a static IP in your computer’s operating system, in order to connect to the AV200 CableLAN Adapter and configure it. 5.1.1 Setting up a static IP in Windows XP 1. Click the Start button, open the Control Panel. From there, click the Network Connections icon and then the Network Connections window appears. 25 2. Select the Local Area Connection icon for the applicable adapter.
Network Configuration 4. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click the Properties button. 26 5. Select Use the following IP address. Set the IP address manually in the format 10.10.1.X (for example 10.10.1.200) and mask 255.255.0.0 of local TCP/IP settings. The Default gateway box can be empty.
Network Configuration 6. Click OK button in the TCP/IP Properties window to complete the PC configuration, and click Close or the OK button to close the Network window. 5.1.2 Setting up a static IP in Windows 2000 1. Go to the network screen by clicking the Start button. Click Settings and then Control Panel. From there, double-click the Network and Dial-up Connections icon. 27 2.
Network Configuration 3. Click the Properties button to get to the Local Area Connection Properties. 4. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click the Properties button. 5. Select Use the following IP address. Set the IP address manually in the format 10.10.1.X (for example 10.10.1.200) and mask 255.255.0.0 of local TCP/IP settings. The Default gateway box can be left empty.
Network Configuration 6. Click the OK button in the TCP/IP Properties window to complete the PC configuration, and click Close or the OK button to close the Network window. 5.1.3 Setting up a static IP in Windows 98 1. Go to the network screen by clicking the Start button. Click Settings and then Control Panel. From there, double-click the Network icon. 2. On the Configuration tab, select the TCP/IP line for the applicable CableLAN adapter.
Network Configuration 5.1.5 Setting up a static IP in Mac OS X 1. Open the Network Control Panel in System Preferences. 30 2. Select Built-in Ethernet from the pop-up menu.
Network Configuration 3. Set the IP address manually in the format 10.10.1.X (e.g. 10.10.1.200) and Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0 4. Click on Apply Now and close the Network panel, saving your settings. 5.2 Improving FTP performance The latency of a CableLAN network is higher than that of an Ethernet network. Most operating systems have a default setting of the network latency based on Ethernet figures.
Network Configuration TCPWIN.SH To use this script in Linux, you must have kernel 2.4. Logged in as root, execute the following command: ./tcpwin.sh 512 This will set the TCP window to a size of 512 Kilobytes. 5.3 Checking Network Performance On the Main page, under the heading Available CableLAN Connections, there is a list of the MAC addresses of all of the neighboring adapters that have a connection with that adapter.
Network Configuration When to use this filter: • When you want to isolate your AV CableLAN network from the rest of the coaxial infrastructure, either because you don’t want the CableLAN signal from your network to go out and disrupt other adapters, or because you want to isolate this network from the noise, or other traffic, in the rest of the cable network.
Troubleshooting Guide 6 Troubleshooting Guide The Corinex AV200 CableLAN Adapter has been designed to be a reliable and easy-to-use network connection device. Please refer to the list below to aid in troubleshooting. The POWER LED is off. 1. Verify the connection of the power cable to the adapter’s power inlet. 2. Make sure the power adapter is properly plugged directly into the electrical outlet, and that the outlet has power. 3. Try another outlet. The CableLAN Act LED is off. 1.
Troubleshooting Guide If you can’t solve your difficulties using the information sources mentioned above, please send us the problem description via http://www.corinex.com/web/com. nsf/Doc. We would like you to give us all possible information about your devices and your network, when contacting us.
